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he was around when clinton -- remember that economy? okay. he said i wish president obama and the democrats would explain to the nation the federal budget deficit isn't the major problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be the major goal. problem is lack of good jobs and the goal must to be revive both. deficit reduction leads us away from jobs and growth. the reason the fiscal cliff is dangerous is because it's too much deficit reduction too quickly that would suck demand out of the economy. more jobs and growth will help the deficit. recall the '90s when the clinton administration balanced the budget because of faster job growth than anybody expected bringing in more tax revenues than anyone had forecast. europe offers the same lesson in reverse. thank you. as jim says, every time we talk about this, they keep taking the wrong -- lindsey graham said we're going to be greece. yeah, if we do what you want! the best way to generate jobs and growth is for the government to spend more, not less. and for taxes to stay lor owe become lower on the m
he was around when clinton -- remember that economy? okay. he said i wish president obama and the democrats would explain to the nation the federal budget deficit isn't the major problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be the major goal. problem is lack of good jobs and the goal must to be revive both. deficit reduction leads us away from jobs and growth. the reason the fiscal cliff is dangerous is because it's too much deficit reduction too quickly that would suck demand out of the economy....
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i think michelle obama will take bill clinton. >> stephanie: i am so enjoying a bill clinton corkscrew. i do not have the hilary nutcracker yet. conservative actor steven bald win arrested for failing to file three year's of tax returns. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> uh-huh. he is one of those fake christian guys. >> stephanie: he is accused of owing more than $350,000 to the state of new york. >> wow. maybe we can bad mouth bono some more. >> stephanie: everybody hold your jokes. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: john travolta collects hot chocolate. he collects various kinds of hot coco from around the world. he said it represents winter wonderland and christmas. he went on to explain how people should handle hot coco. he said never blow on it. never ever blow it changes the quality of the chocolate. >> that's the gayest thing i have ever heard. >> if you have a gay sex scandal with three different masseurs. don't have an album cover to handle your gay panic scandal, because he is wearing a hot toddy, and is wearing [ inaudible ]. >> stephanie: speaking of
i think michelle obama will take bill clinton. >> stephanie: i am so enjoying a bill clinton corkscrew. i do not have the hilary nutcracker yet. conservative actor steven bald win arrested for failing to file three year's of tax returns. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> uh-huh. he is one of those fake christian guys. >> stephanie: he is accused of owing more than $350,000 to the state of new york. >> wow. maybe we can bad mouth bono some more. >>...
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this is the home of the clinton presidential library, and maybe the hilary clinton presidential library. >> stephanie: oh, i hope so. i was just talking to somebody about that yesterday. >> caller: when are you coming down here, we have a lot of liberals down here. >> stephanie: yes, i have never been to the clinton library. >> caller: well, come on down. what i wanted to point out, and it has already been said here before, basically -- the republicans are trying to throw grandma and grandpa under the bus because of the $3 trillion war debt. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: this is what this is somebody. americans claim to be patriotic, and so many of us wanted to go to war after 9/11 then why don't we have a surtax on the bottom of our income tax reform so we can all pay, but people like mitt romney should be paying more also. >> stephanie: absolutely. >> all of the politicians who supported the iraq war should be paying more. >> stephanie: there you go. and by the way -- >> i am not one of your fans! >> stephanie: sexy liberal hal sparks and spongebob square pants on the big show tomorr
this is the home of the clinton presidential library, and maybe the hilary clinton presidential library. >> stephanie: oh, i hope so. i was just talking to somebody about that yesterday. >> caller: when are you coming down here, we have a lot of liberals down here. >> stephanie: yes, i have never been to the clinton library. >> caller: well, come on down. what i wanted to point out, and it has already been said here before, basically -- the republicans are trying to...
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why don't we raise the taxes on the top 2% back to clinton-era. >> stephanie: amy in illinois. hello, amy. >> hi, i love you guys. >> stephanie: i love you back. >> caller: my daughter's been doing her own little political protest. she was in the fourth grade. she refuses to say the pledge of allegiance so there's -- until there's equal rights are for marriage for everybody because she says she can't say liberty and justice for all if it isn't true. >> stephanie: oh! children are the future. >> that's totes adorns. ♪ i believe that children are our future ♪ >> stephanie: let's go to joe in pittsburgh. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi joe. >> caller: actually, jesus did say gay is okay but in order to understand that, you have to understand the language of the times he was speaking. >> ancient -- >> gay people throughout the bible were referred to as natural-born eunicks. jesus identified three different. natural born, those by other men and those who made themselves for the kingdom of heaven's sakes. now, matthew 19 is often quoted -- >> stephanie: i thought unic m
why don't we raise the taxes on the top 2% back to clinton-era. >> stephanie: amy in illinois. hello, amy. >> hi, i love you guys. >> stephanie: i love you back. >> caller: my daughter's been doing her own little political protest. she was in the fourth grade. she refuses to say the pledge of allegiance so there's -- until there's equal rights are for marriage for everybody because she says she can't say liberty and justice for all if it isn't true. >> stephanie:...
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who was really doing badly during the clinton years? all right. >> the problem is that kind of tax structure makes it so that -- again, part of it is taking capital gains -- the dividend income back up to a normal income. that's the biggest leap for them. that's the one they're freaked out about. when you do that, it makes you less -- likely to take your money out of the investment system and just spend it or put it someplace else and it keeps it in the system. keeps american businesses flowing. keeps you invested. that investment in and of itself is good for the economy. it is the extraction over the last decade that's actually really harmful where people are skimming the short-term -- like shorting airlines or something. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] >> stephanie: i'm confused. i thought yesterday we had a -- california was banning gay repairtive therapy which is dangerous. two federal judges have arrived at opposite conclusions on whether the state's first of its kind law prohibiting therapist from changing them violates the const
who was really doing badly during the clinton years? all right. >> the problem is that kind of tax structure makes it so that -- again, part of it is taking capital gains -- the dividend income back up to a normal income. that's the biggest leap for them. that's the one they're freaked out about. when you do that, it makes you less -- likely to take your money out of the investment system and just spend it or put it someplace else and it keeps it in the system. keeps american businesses...
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we'll go back to the clinton era, which will happen at the beginning of the year. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: and i mean also other people in the lower-income brackets will have to pay more, but i think we're willing to do that. >> stephanie: i don't think it's a preferable thing to go off of the cliff, but the more and more you see republicans have not changed one bit from their obstructionist ways i think, yeah, maybe. >> caller: it doesn't mean that starting january, the world will come to an end. >> caller: yeah, it's gradual. >> caller: and if you ask the people -- fortunately i live in texas, so the previous president i didn't -- i agree with a lot of times, but i will just say that he never asked us to sacrifice anything. he told us to go shopping. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: that is -- it's crazy. >> stephanie: exactly, unless you cut a [ inaudible ] for that last pair of [ mumbling ] shoes. >> stephanie: i should have picked an easier to pronounce shoe. >> keds. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: this is the headlines. they really have not -- they presented another budget where
we'll go back to the clinton era, which will happen at the beginning of the year. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: and i mean also other people in the lower-income brackets will have to pay more, but i think we're willing to do that. >> stephanie: i don't think it's a preferable thing to go off of the cliff, but the more and more you see republicans have not changed one bit from their obstructionist ways i think, yeah, maybe. >> caller: it doesn't mean that starting...
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we had higher tax rates under clinton, and we created 40 million jobs and had a surplus. then the bush folks came in put the war on the credit card prescription drugs on the credit card, and lowered taxes at the high end, and we had only 700,000 jobs and had astonishing deficits since then. >> stephanie: the same l.a. times piece even makes that case with the war in afghanistan winding down the military is asking for less than congress wants to give. so i think there has been so much hysteria over this fiscal cliff that i'm not sure it's warranted. >> that's exactly right. and also the ryan budget you know their doctrine -- and it really is doctrining. lower taxes for the wealthy, and that will trickle down. untrue. number 2, increase spending in the pentagon way beyond what the pentagon wants and that will make us three. and that cut back on things like education and scientific research and somehow we'll have a stronger future. none of those things make any sense. at the core of the ryan approach, and he is representative of the dominant republican point of view now, is
we had higher tax rates under clinton, and we created 40 million jobs and had a surplus. then the bush folks came in put the war on the credit card prescription drugs on the credit card, and lowered taxes at the high end, and we had only 700,000 jobs and had astonishing deficits since then. >> stephanie: the same l.a. times piece even makes that case with the war in afghanistan winding down the military is asking for less than congress wants to give. so i think there has been so much...